These tunes were originally published in various issues of the Irish Pipers' Club newsletter, Iris na bPiobairi, the

Pipers'
Review. They were published in the hope of providing a few common tunes for uilleann pipers, so it seems appropriate to reprint
them here to give them a wider exposure.
John Walsh walsh@math.ubca.ca
From the article in the Review:
The manuscript tunes given here are lesson pieces played in Seattle. Many people from around the country have asked
for the inclusion of some tunes in the Review in order that a common repertoire can be established. We know well how dier-
ent regions have dissimilar bodies of tunes. This is the rst step.
The [rst] two polkas were collected in Newmarket, Co. Cork in 1975 from the playing of local musicians. The reel
"The One-Horned Cow" (The Half-horned Cow) is after the playing of Liam Walsh, a Waterford piper (see IPC tape #3). The
Lodge Road is a set dance tune after the playing of Sean Maguire, combined with some of the features of the air in O'Neill's 1001
Gems. Miss Monaghan and the Irish Rover are after the piping of Leo Rowsome. The double jig When the Cock Crows... is
rather faithful to Seamus Ennis' version, and the Mist on the Valley is largely from the ute-playing of Charley Higgins, Drum-
keerin, Co. Leitrim.
Johnny Mickie's Slide is from the playing of Denis Brooks and is copied from a manuscript of his. It also goes well
when transposed in G. Denis learned it while living in northwest Cork.
The nal three polkas are from Denis Brooks, who associates them with a great session that took place at the Top of
Croom in West Cork whith Peter Heelan, Sabra Daly and Seamus Creagh in 1988. They make a nice set.

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